Tell us about YOUR Northern Spark
Tell us about YOUR Northern Spark
Some press links for Northern Spark 2012
Sarah Brumble, “The best of Northern Spark: A whole lot of Twin Cities love“, Twin Cities Daily Planet
Deboarah Carver, “Night Lights in the City,” mnartists.org
Marianne Combs, “Highlights and lowlights from ‘Northern Spark’,” MPRNews
Lightsey Darst, “Night Vision: A Northern Spark Diary,” mnartists.org
Zac Farber, “Wheelies, Skids and Bunny Hops Yield Chalk Art at Northern Spark Festival,” Southwest Minneapolis Patch
Jay Gabler, “My Northern Spark Journey,” Twin Cities Daily Planet
Tom Horgen and Mary Abbe, “Northern Spark Festival: Up all night,” StarTribune
Stephanie Kwong, “A Taste of Northern Spark,” phenoMNal twin cities
Andy Lien, “Photo Gallery: Northern Spark 2012, The Instagrams,” Lavendar
Jahna Peloquin, “Saturday: Northern Spark Festival,” Vita.mn
Sheila Regan, “Northern Spark: Minnesota’s sleepover art party,” City Pages
Joel Schettler, “Nuit Blanche: An Art All-Nighter,” Minnesota Monthly
Brittany Trevick, “Think and Wonder, Wonder and Think,” Twin Cities Metro
Joel Zimmerman, “MN Original’s Northern Spark journey,” MN Original
Vita.mn staff, “The Crawl: Northern Spark: What just happened??”
Northern Spark videos
Northern Spark Channel
More than 20 videos of your favorite venues and projects.
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This video created by Caleb Coppock (vimeo.com/calebcoppock) illustrates the time scope (from dusk until dawn) of the "In Habit: Living Patterns" performance at Northern Spark, June 2012. The music for the video was composed by John Keston for the sixteenth and final vignette in the sequence titled, "Energy."
Northern Spark in and around the Soap Factory including the 10 Second Film Festival
Interactive media art by Eunsu Kang and Donald Craig Choreography and dance by Diana Garcia-Snyder June 9th, 2012 at the W Hotel Minneapolis as a part of Northern Spark 2012
On June 9-10, the Loft and Paper Darts co-hosted a Northern Spark event called Captured Dreams. A video loop of submitted dreams ran throughout the night.
Time Lapse documentation of setup and participant interaction with Dan Scofield and Miriam Simun's "21%" sound installation at the 2012 Northern Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN on June 9th, 2012. Site-specific sound installation, 2011. Passive Infrared and Ultra Sonic Range Finder Sensors, Arduino, Max/MSP, 8-Channel Original Audio 21% invites visitors to influence a sound collage in collaboration ‘with’ the trees they walk amongst, as well as with other visitors to the space.
Dillon Bakke, "Too Cool"
Alex Lauer + BA Mpls at Northern Spark
Yuiees collaborating with local artists; Rachel James, Kit Leffler, Andrea Steudel, Yuichiro Tanabe, and Josh Winkler
Tristan Pollock's Northern Spark
Northern Spark Midnight Mario Video #4, featuring the real Mario
Midnight Mario vids by Dustin Davis 1 2 3 4
Overnight is a realtime data portrait of Minneapolis shown at Northern Spark 2012. Projected on the Mill City Silos, each silo holds one aspect of data collected about the city. Data-driven music accompanies the visuals, and was played on a section of the Stone Arch Bridge overlooking the silos.
pongatorium in the Palace of Wonder at Northern Spark
Sarah Peters on CultureQueue
DLWeidt Northern Spark on Greenway
Videos along the Greenway by DLWeidt: 1 2 3
the Northern Spark psychedelic matching band: sunset
Grand opening of the Gamut Gallery in downtown Minneapolis. It was part of the annual Northern Spark art festival that takes over most of the city for one night.
Come see the Palace of Wonder!! wonder... wonder... at Northern Spark in the courtyard of Minneapolis Institute of Arts - June 9th - Dusk to Dawn!
Three Nuns And A Gun - (Live at MCAD - Northern Spark 2012)
During four weeks of construction and installation leading up to the MIA's 2012 Northern Spark event, HOTTEA, MIA staff and volunteers measured, cut, and knotted an estimated 14,000 pieces of colored yarn (almost 400 skeins) to a plastic fence. If laid end-to-end, the yarn would stretch for 82 miles, or put another way, the distance from the MIA to Mankato, Minnesota. If it went straight up into the sky, the yarn would reach past the Kármán Line, the border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
Balloon creatures at MIA @Northern Spark
Gallery13 presents SPARK3DS EXHIBITION and Mini Symposium will open on Saturday June 9th with the exhibition Opening 8:00 in conjunction with Northern Spark Festival.
A look at the strange sights and sounds of Northern Spark
We talked with Rosemary Williams, creator of "Mom's Cookies," part of the Northern Spark festival in Minneapolis on June 9, 2012. Her videos, featuring several General Mills products, were displayed on the side of buildings on the historic Minneapolis riverfront and milling district.
Northern Spark Marching Band on the Stone Arch Bridge at St. Anthony Main, Minneapolis MN. Conducted by Jackie Beckey
mnartists.org, Drawing NIGHTclub Acoustic Campfire + Bedtime Stories, Brian Laidlaw Scott Sayre and Vanessa Voskuil, Midnight Padhandling
Ben Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron150
Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade
Aniccha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns
Michael Murnane, Under Ice
Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies
Eunsu Kang and Diana Garcia-Snyder, Shin’m Pinata Jim Campbell, Material World Caly McMorrow, Observation Tape Deck
Tetsuaya Yamada and Clive Murphy, Pizza/Calliope Diane Willow, Tuning the Sky Bell Museum, Capturing the Night Raptor Center, All About Owls Weisman Art Museum, Night Vision Tours: All Will Be Illuminated Jenny Schmid, Drew Anderson and MAW, nightdemons
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak kicked off Northern Spark with a rousing call to the night and the virtues of Minneapolis.
Northern Spark videos
Northern Spark Channel
More than 20 videos of your favorite venues and projects.
Northern Spark channel
More videos
Contributed by participants. Add new links in the comments section.
This video created by Caleb Coppock (vimeo.com/calebcoppock) illustrates the time scope (from dusk until dawn) of the "In Habit: Living Patterns" performance at Northern Spark, June 2012. The music for the video was composed by John Keston for the sixteenth and final vignette in the sequence titled, "Energy."
Northern Spark in and around the Soap Factory including the 10 Second Film Festival
Interactive media art by Eunsu Kang and Donald Craig Choreography and dance by Diana Garcia-Snyder June 9th, 2012 at the W Hotel Minneapolis as a part of Northern Spark 2012
On June 9-10, the Loft and Paper Darts co-hosted a Northern Spark event called Captured Dreams. A video loop of submitted dreams ran throughout the night.
Time Lapse documentation of setup and participant interaction with Dan Scofield and Miriam Simun's "21%" sound installation at the 2012 Northern Spark Festival in Minneapolis, MN on June 9th, 2012. Site-specific sound installation, 2011. Passive Infrared and Ultra Sonic Range Finder Sensors, Arduino, Max/MSP, 8-Channel Original Audio 21% invites visitors to influence a sound collage in collaboration ‘with’ the trees they walk amongst, as well as with other visitors to the space.
Dillon Bakke, "Too Cool"
Alex Lauer + BA Mpls at Northern Spark
Yuiees collaborating with local artists; Rachel James, Kit Leffler, Andrea Steudel, Yuichiro Tanabe, and Josh Winkler
Tristan Pollock's Northern Spark
Northern Spark Midnight Mario Video #4, featuring the real Mario
Midnight Mario vids by Dustin Davis 1 2 3 4
Overnight is a realtime data portrait of Minneapolis shown at Northern Spark 2012. Projected on the Mill City Silos, each silo holds one aspect of data collected about the city. Data-driven music accompanies the visuals, and was played on a section of the Stone Arch Bridge overlooking the silos.
pongatorium in the Palace of Wonder at Northern Spark
Sarah Peters on CultureQueue
DLWeidt Northern Spark on Greenway
Videos along the Greenway by DLWeidt: 1 2 3
the Northern Spark psychedelic matching band: sunset
Grand opening of the Gamut Gallery in downtown Minneapolis. It was part of the annual Northern Spark art festival that takes over most of the city for one night.
Come see the Palace of Wonder!! wonder... wonder... at Northern Spark in the courtyard of Minneapolis Institute of Arts - June 9th - Dusk to Dawn!
Three Nuns And A Gun - (Live at MCAD - Northern Spark 2012)
During four weeks of construction and installation leading up to the MIA's 2012 Northern Spark event, HOTTEA, MIA staff and volunteers measured, cut, and knotted an estimated 14,000 pieces of colored yarn (almost 400 skeins) to a plastic fence. If laid end-to-end, the yarn would stretch for 82 miles, or put another way, the distance from the MIA to Mankato, Minnesota. If it went straight up into the sky, the yarn would reach past the Kármán Line, the border between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
Balloon creatures at MIA @Northern Spark
Gallery13 presents SPARK3DS EXHIBITION and Mini Symposium will open on Saturday June 9th with the exhibition Opening 8:00 in conjunction with Northern Spark Festival.
A look at the strange sights and sounds of Northern Spark
We talked with Rosemary Williams, creator of "Mom's Cookies," part of the Northern Spark festival in Minneapolis on June 9, 2012. Her videos, featuring several General Mills products, were displayed on the side of buildings on the historic Minneapolis riverfront and milling district.
Northern Spark Marching Band on the Stone Arch Bridge at St. Anthony Main, Minneapolis MN. Conducted by Jackie Beckey
mnartists.org, Drawing NIGHTclub Acoustic Campfire + Bedtime Stories, Brian Laidlaw Scott Sayre and Vanessa Voskuil, Midnight Padhandling
Ben Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron150
Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade
Aniccha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns
Michael Murnane, Under Ice
Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies
Eunsu Kang and Diana Garcia-Snyder, Shin’m Pinata Jim Campbell, Material World Caly McMorrow, Observation Tape Deck
Tetsuaya Yamada and Clive Murphy, Pizza/Calliope Diane Willow, Tuning the Sky Bell Museum, Capturing the Night Raptor Center, All About Owls Weisman Art Museum, Night Vision Tours: All Will Be Illuminated Jenny Schmid, Drew Anderson and MAW, nightdemons
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak kicked off Northern Spark with a rousing call to the night and the virtues of Minneapolis.
Walker Art Center, Northern Spark 2012
Walker Art Center, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
mnartists.org, Drawing NIGHTclub
Acoustic Campfire + Bedtime Stories, Brian Laidlaw
Scott Sayre and Vanessa Voskuil, Midnight Padhandling
Videographers: Nolan Morice, Tricia Towey
Editor: Brennan Vance
Ben and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron 150, Northern Spark 2012
Ben and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron 150, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Ben Johnson and Elizabeth Johnson, PixelTron150
Videographers: Allison Osberg, Nolan Morice, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade, Northern Spark 2012
Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Jackie Beckey, Psychedelic Art Parade
Videographers: Allison Osberg, Tricia Towey, Tom Johnson, Nolan Morice, Gus Ganley, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
Annicha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns, Northern Spark 2012
Annicha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Aniccha Arts, In Habit: Living Patterns
Videographers: Allsion Osberg, Tricia Towey, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
Michael Murnane, Under Ice, Northern Spark 2012
Michael Murnane, Under Ice, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Michael Murnane, Under Ice
Videographers: Allison Osberg, Tricia Towey, Tom Johnson, Nolan Morice, Gus Ganley, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies, Northern Spark 2012
Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Rosemary Williams, Mom’s Cookies
Videographers: Allison Osberg, Tricia Towey, Tom Johnson, Nolan Morice, Gus Ganley, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
The Foshay and Target South Tower, Northern Spark 2012
The Foshay and Target South Tower, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Eunsu Kang and Diana Garcia-Snyder, Shin’m Pinata
Jim Campbell, Material World
Caly McMorrow, Observation Tape Deck
Videographers: Nolan Morice, Brennan Vance
Editor: Brennan Vance
Weisman Art Museum, Northern Spark 2012
Weisman Art Museum, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Tetsuaya Yamada and Clive Murphy, Pizza/Calliope
Diane Willow, Tuning the Sky
Bell Museum, Capturing the Night
Raptor Center, All About Owls
Weisman Art Museum, Night Vision Tours: All Will Be Illuminated
Jenny Schmid, Drew Anderson and MAW, nightdemons
Videographer:: Tom Johnson
Editor:: Brennan Vance
Stone Arch Bridge and Mill Ruins Park, Northern Spark 2012
Stone Arch Bridge and Mill Ruins Park, Northern Spark 2012 from Northern Spark on Vimeo.
Robin Schwartzman, THINK AND WONDER, WONDER AND THINK
David Rueter, The Kuramoto Model (1,000 Fireflies)
Wil Natzel, Night Blooms
Lauren McCarthy and David Wicks, Bumps in the Night
Videographers:
Allison Osberg, Tricia Towey, Tom Johnson, Nolan Morice, Gus Ganley, Brennan Vance
Editor:
Brennan Vance
Mayor Rybak kicks off Northern Spark
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak kicked off Northern Spark with a rousing call to the night and the virtues of Minneapolis.
An Introduction to Agonism: Volume 3
One of the highlights of the symposium “Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street” is the chance to experience some of my favorite artist-theorist-architect-programmer-activist friends engage in agonistic embrace on stage at the Walker. Here is the opening salvo (not to be confused with Di-Salvo).
How should I explain the idea of agonism to my neighbor across the street?
Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition A new book and deck of cards by Marisa Jahn explores the productive possibilities of agonism, a relationship built on mutual incitement and struggle.
Warren Sack: “Agonism” is the ancient Greek word for a contest with a prize. In the sense we are using it, is a way of understanding life and politics as a game or contest.
Marisa Jahn: My neighbors do in fact ask me what agonism is. But then I like to throw it back on them. I say, “ok, let’s play a game. When I say agonism, you say…” I’ve gotten all sorts of answers. One person said, “Paradise Lost.” Lucifer wrestling the angels. A physiologist responded that the agonist is a contracting muscle; the antagonist is the muscle that returns the limb to its natural state. A techie person was reminded of the symbiotic relationship between the fig wasp and the sycamore tree. A musician likened agonism to noise. As in, harmony is control, order. Noise is the sum of sounds; it fluctuates between harmony and cacaphony. Noise is difference, polyphony, epistemological and political pluralism.
Mark Shepard: I don’t think you should explain agonism to your neighbor – better to enact it through engaging her – with empathy and respect – on an issue you disagree.
Carl Skelton: There is a variant of agonism, which most people think of as how open-source software happens: an idea gets proposed in an initial form to the widest possible group. Of the many who find fault with it, a small minority will actually propose an improvement, which is then subjected to the same process, except that the original proponent gets to weigh in as a critic. Anybody who cares enough to keep the idea moving owns it. Over time, competing variants and improvements are adopted and discarded by ad hoc groups which themselves persist, peter out or mutate over time.
Carl DiSalvo: Agonism is the truth that your neighbor already knows – legislation doesn’t *solve* anything, the conflicts continue regardless, it’s just the nature of politics.
How does agonism express itself in your practice as an artist?
Mark Shepard, artist comp, structures for dischord
Marisa: If agonism merely describes a condition in the world, then expressing agonism through artwork in fact paints reality more aptly and with greater complexity. Agon makes things fun! Agonistic art practices “work” by coming in through the backdoor to solve problems and intrigue using a different kind of logic.
Carl D: My practice is about creating spaces for an agonistic pluralism to flourish, for creating spaces where we can participate in conflicting values and practices towards the composition of new social conditions and structures.
Mark: As an artist I maintain an agonistic relationship to the discipline of architecture. My work exploits the tensions between architecture and media art with respect to how space is conceived, constructed, organized and interpreted within technologically mediated environments.
Warren: Much of my work as an artist is concerned with politics and publics, and I consider what would it mean to make political metaphors material. For example, we talk about debates as though they are scored like boxing or wrestling contests, but of course they are not. What would happen if we devised a scoring system for debates?
Warren Sack, Agonistics: A Language Game
Carl S: Nothing ever gets finished, but you never run out of room for improvement.
We’re clearly living in a fractious time. How can agonism help us?
Courtesy Carl DiSalvo
Carl D: Like any theory, agonism is a tool to think with. So it gives us a way to understand what we mean when we use terms like democracy and politics. From this, we might begin not just “think about” but also “do” democracy differently.
Marisa: Paying attention to agonism helps us reframe how we see struggle. Instead of regarding it as a symptom of a bad or messy or contentious situation, we can instead see agonism as a symptom of an environment that is strong enough to withstand difference and adversity.
Warren: As many theorists have pointed out, our culture is increasingly “gamified.” People tend to think of many everyday actions as moves in a game. For instance, what does it mean “to make a move,” “to make a play,” “to play around,” “to call someone a loser”? If indeed, all the world’s a game and all the men and women merely players, then what is this game we are playing and how could it be otherwise?
Mark: One would hope that agonism offers a way to come to terms with extreme ideological differences – not resolving them, but at least making the debate more tolerable.
How do we foster a space for dissensus, critical dialogue, and debate?
Marisa: Promote and commit to diversity! This may mean doing the work to figure out how you are going to outreach to people from a different point of view or ilk, subjecting ourselves to uncomfortable situations; and building conditions to foster a sense of tolerance and difference. Listen to who’s not speaking and see why not; create a space where this differential is foregrounded. Understand that you can hold difference; understand when compromise sacrifices particular points of view and when compromise strengthens alliances.
What are you most looking forward to about the Discourse and Discord symposium?
Carl D: The opportunity to have these conversations in public, and to disagree about them.
Mark: The opportunity to encounter and test different ideas on agonism through the various formats planned.
Carl S: The chance to try a few things I’ve been working on, and to find out what might be possible in re-making Hennepin avenue, which seems to have a lot in common with a lot of other urban environments that need some love in North America and Europe.
Related
An Introduction to Agonism: Volume 1
An Introduction to Agonism: Volume 2
Discourse and Discord: Architecture of Agonism from the Kitchen Table to the City Street
Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition (download)